Jun and I did a test run yesterday for our forthcoming trip to Bergen. With cameras strapped to the sides of our heads and armed with sound recording equipment we headed to Aberdeen beach. In Bergen (and then later in St Petersburg), we’ll be documenting our journey to the sea, stopping to ask directions from locals along the way…
Images of yesterday’s test run can be found here.
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The Three Cities Project has been running for two years with participants from Aberdeen, Bergen and St Petersburg learning about and engaging with aural culture from each of the three cities through working with sound recordings. This finale will document the project and will include work by Ross Whyte, Pete Stollery, Trond Lossius and Suk-Jun Kim. In addition to the […]
Bergen in the morning around 6 AM, listening in a small plaza…. At the sea, a boat out to the sea stops its engine (perhaps people inside saw me with a big shotgun mic… and became suspicious…) and soon resumes its course… – Jun
Ross at the sea, listening to a small boat passing by… Sigurd making his journey to the sea 1 Siguard making his journey to the sea, passing by a (huge) truck… Jun arriving at the sea, children playing, a helicopter hovering overhead… – Jun
At the Fløibanen Station: Ross got into the station and I was also trying to get in, but my Fløibanen card keeps giving me some errors… The funicular arrives at the summit, and the train makes some huge and heavy engine sounds; I walked out from the station to the open space…
Getting up at 5am (thanks Jun!) is a great way to discover a city that you’re unfamiliar with. When there aren’t too many people or traffic around, some sounds become more apparent – or even impossible to ignore….like the seagulls I recorded at the port or the clicking of the signal crossing. […]
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